Monday, July 28, 2008

COMMENTS: While the Dodgers were sweeping the Nationals to move back to .500 for the first time since May, the Giants were playing like Lassie up north against the Diamondbacks, politely obliging the Snakes by rolling over and playing dead, allowing Arizona a sweep of its own (the Giants wouldn't want to be rude hosts, would they?). The Dodgers remain one game back of first-place Arizona. So you know what this means, right? We've all seen this movie before:

Lassie becomes Cujo and the archaic Giants open an inexplicable can of fountain of youth whup-ass;

Joe Torre benches Andre Ethier for Andruw Jones just because Ethier's hair is out of place;

Mark Sweeney starts in leadoff;

The mercurial Kuroda follows up his last two shaky starts with another two-innings-and-out performance;

Nomar gets a hangnail and has to sit after the third inning;

Chan Ho Park serves up BP on the mound in the sixth;

Frank McCourt on a whim raises parking rates to $20 for a "rivalry" game, exacerbated further when the Dodgers Shuttle breaks down on Figueroa;

Levy runs out of Dodger Dogs by the fifth inning;

Rick Monday scares the hell out of the pre-game show paratroopers by stealing their flag parachutes soon after they land;

the hat shuffle selects the missing "hat #4" just for the hell of it, leading to rampant rioting in the left field pavilion;

Nancy Bea Hefley's organ keys get stuck on a dissonant chord after her coke spills on the keyboard, and attempts to drown out the sound with the ever-present Tag Team "Whoomp, There It Is!" short the sound system;

Vin Scully finally says, "That's it, I can't take these stupid lineups any more" and walks out of his own press booth mid-inning.

Wait, maybe I haven't seen that exact movie before; perhaps I'm mistaken. On the bright side, at least we aren't seeing Tim Lincecum this series. Maybe this will all turn out okay.

This game has been a jewel. They were losing by seven, now the Giants have only a one run lead. Between that gasp of Dodgers runs, we have witnessed a RBI double by Sweeney and a RBI single courtesy of Jones.

Rob , in fact i've never been in LA (fact that could change in a while).

I grew up with a diehard baseball fan such as my dad, but i finally fell in love with baseball in the 1988 World Series. That winter my local team went on winning the venezuelan winter baseball championship and the Caribbean Series (just in case it's a tournament between the champion teams of Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Venezuela right before spring training)

Probably just a little arf-ritis. Nothing a little glucosamine couldn't help. You can buy canine glucosamine at a really good price from Trader Joe's. If that doesn't do it, the injectable kind makes a really big difference. We give Hannah a shot every three days or so and it really helps a lot.

They lost, but let's see the positive: they scored 6 runs in spite the middle order's performance was very weak, after a seven run lead for the opposing team. Unexpected quality pinch-hitting.The bullpen was impeccable.